Posted on 05/03/2023 10:24:08 AM PDT by Rummyfan
If you had any doubt that Bernie Sanders (I-USSR) was an actual Communist, doubt no longer. The guy who stands ready in case Old Joe retires and the Democrats opt to pick another octogenarian Leftist sat down Friday for a chat with Chris Wallace on HBO Max, and declared that if someone earns more than $999 million in a given year, the U.S. government should seize all of it. That’s right: all of it. Not 90 percent. Every last penny. And he showed no indication of having any idea why this policy, if it were ever enacted, would kill the economy and leave non-billionaires worse off than they were before. Or maybe, given the unanimous record of socialist states, that’s the idea.
The UK’s far-Left Guardian reported Tuesday that the trouble started when the failed CNN host Wallace asked the twice-failed presidential candidate Sanders about a statement in the old Commie’s book It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. Sanders, by the way, receives royalties for that book, and there is no cap on the income he can earn; if it becomes a bestseller, he will get more money. At no point will anyone step in and tell Bernie, who owns three houses, that he is making too much money, and has to turn over the rest to the wise Leftist bureaucrats who will duly redistribute it to those in need.
Wallace asked Sanders about his declaration in that book that “billionaires should not exist.” He asked the old leech: “Are you basically saying that once you get to $999m that the government should confiscate all the rest?” Sanders unabashedly owned up to backing systematic and organized grand theft, replying: “Yeah. You may disagree with me but, fine, I think people can make it on $999m...
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Bernie reminds me of a fool that wants only the top 10 percent of taxpayers to forfeit all income.
Do the math. Follow the logic.
Pretty soon the top ten percent will be less than minimum wage workers. Whatever. Confiscate their income.
Is he still stealing the Sunday Washington Post off his neighbor’s porch?
People who can make 1 billion in one year can make it look like a lot of other things. So would that Theranos chick have been forced to cash out before the scam was exposed? She made a billion in stock before it crashed.
Very few people make that much money in a single year. Some companies do. If some entrepreneur were to build a big company and sell it - Bernie just put a cap on how much it is worth. Good news for predatory capitalists but bad news for the little guy who wants to build something big in pursuit of the American Dream.
Looks like Comrade Bernie of the many dachas is talking about total wealth rather than annual income. So you can’t just keep $999 million each year.
What about those billionaires who support leftist causes? Will Bernie grant an exemption to folks like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet?
BS. Bernie Sanders net worth is approx $3 million so eventually that’ll replace his $999 million limit. Because NOBODY who’s worked a day in his life should have more than Bernie.
Well, Somalia and Cuba and Venezuela, aren’t doing so bad.
So, making America just like them doesn’t seem so bad either.
Bernie hasn’t got a brain capable enough to think about the consequences of his stupidity.
Well Bern, when you get to hell, hopefully soon, the devil make sure you get the same amount of heat and torture everyone else does.
I’m surprised ol Bernie doesn’t give all his money away.....NOT!!!
Michael Savage has been saying for many years Bernie isnt what he appears to be. He claims to be a social democrat. Savage says he is out and out pinko communist. Said he was so full of Marxist rantings and lazy to boot he was thrown out of a hippie commune near San Fran in the 60s.
Piss him off and suggest the gov confiscate all income over $999,999.99. He could never muster the brain power to achieve a billion, and the bitterness shows.
I think anyone that owns 3 houses the government should take them all. BTW Bernie owns 3 houses.
He’s elected over and over. Just think of the nut jobs who elect him. And please, don’t make excuses for them. They’re worse than the old fart.
Are you basically saying that once you get to $999m that the government should confiscate all the rest?”
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How does that work exactly?
I mean, it’s not like most billionaires just have $1,000,000,000 sitting in an FDIC savings account.
Sure a lot of it could be in the stock market or other investments, but for most of them it’s tied up in personal wealth as well as corporate capital. Yes, they could sell off their various holdings, but it would only be then that the billions are ‘liquid’
Is bernie suggesting that Bezos should give up the Washington Post?
It will be income over $999 million this year if this commie has his way....eventually, they will seize anything over $99,000.
Look what the income tax morphed into since 1914.
Yet one more reason 2A is so important.
As soon as bernie gives up all his money and houses I promise to think about it
There goes my monthly social security check...
Wife and I will have to buy even cheaper canned dog food...
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